DS3 and E6300 problems

Participant · 25 Sep 2006 at 22:10

Pfff good luck

sic6six · 25 Sep 2006 at 22:43

well luckily me and jcs live close to overclockers so we can go straight to the shop. we tried everything to sort her pc. power supply, audio drivers (which seem to keep showing a BSOD from time to time.) graphics drivers, memory test, and updating the bios. nothing seems to have worked. any one got any suggestions on what else we can try. we cant put another gfx card in to test as we dont have a spare lying around atm, unless i take the one out of my pc to try out.

daz · 25 Sep 2006 at 22:57

Run memtest and prime95, see if you can narrow down the problem.

sic6six · 25 Sep 2006 at 23:02

already ran memtest. thats the first thing i thought of. what is prime used for testing? nevermind i'll look it up

sic6six · 25 Sep 2006 at 23:20

it says it takes a month on the site but we cant wait that long

BigDannyO · 26 Sep 2006 at 14:00

just as a matter of interest, what PSU did you try as a replacement?

sic6six · 26 Sep 2006 at 20:05

an akasa 650 watt.

i have rang overclockers and explained the situation and they gave me something to try so im gonna see if it works. if not im gonna take the stuff into overclockers

BigDannyO · 27 Sep 2006 at 15:15

not that i'm trying to send you on a wild goose chase or anything(

), but if that 650w akasa is the one listed in the OCUK catalogue, its still only rated at a max of 18A on the 12V rails.

These more powerful cards, like the X1900, sit happiest on something with at least 20A on the 12V rails, so it still could be a problem there.

Personally, ive only got a 7600gt, so I don't know for sure what the X1900 is best running on. Perhaps someone else who has one could shed some light on this?

hyper_piper45 · 27 Sep 2006 at 15:23

have you tryed upping the voltage on the ram? Try vdimm +0.3